8-letter words containing n, o, w
- loanword — a word in one language that has been borrowed from another language and usually naturalized, as wine, taken into Old English from Latin vinum, or macho, taken into Modern English from Spanish.
- lockdown — the confining of prisoners to their cells, as following a riot or other disturbance.
- longbows — Plural form of longbow.
- longview — a city in NE Texas.
- longwall — noting or pertaining to a means of extracting coal or other minerals in an underground mine from a continuous face, the roof before the face being supported at intervals by temporary or movable artificial supports. Compare room-and-pillar.
- longwave — (of radio waves) Having a wavelength of greater than 1000 meters.
- longways — longwise.
- longwise — lengthwise
- longwood — a city in central Florida.
- longword — (computing) A type of unsigned integer variable that is longer than a word (specific number of bits depends upon architecture).
- lookdown — the appearance of paper when inspected under reflected light.
- low rent — Informal. second-rate; bargain-basement.
- low wine — Often, low wines. Distilling. the weak spirits obtained from the first distillation; the result of the first run of the still from the fermented mash.
- low-down — If someone gives you the low-down on a person or thing, they tell you all the important information about them.
- low-rent — Informal. second-rate; bargain-basement.
- lowering — comparative of low1 .
- lowlands — land that is low or level, in comparison with the adjacent country.
- lungworm — any nematode worm of the superfamily Metastrongylidae, parasitic in the lungs of various mammals.
- lungwort — a European plant, Pulmonaria officinalis, of the borage family, having blue flowers.
- lynnwood — a city in NW Washington.
- madwoman — a woman who is or behaves as if insane.
- madwomen — Plural form of madwoman.
- manpower — power in terms of people available or required for work or military service: the manpower of a country.
- mansworn — Past participle of manswear.
- manwhore — (slang) A man who sells his body for money; a male prostitute.
- markdown — a reduction in price, usually to encourage buying.
- mawbound — (of cattle) constipated
- meltdown — network meltdown
- merwoman — A mermaid.
- merwomen — Plural form of merwoman.
- misknown — Past participle of misknow.
- misknows — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misknow.
- mixdowns — Plural form of mixdown.
- monobrow — a pair of eyebrows that appear to be connected because of some extra hair growing in the space between them: He had very bushy eyebrows, almost a unibrow.
- moonglow — Moonlight.
- moonwalk — an exploratory walk by an astronaut on the surface of the moon.
- moonward — Also, moonwards. toward the moon: turned their eyes moonward.
- moonwise — (nonstandard) Anticlockwise.
- moonwort — any fern of the genus Botrychium, especially B. lunaria, a rare fern having fronds with crescent-shaped leaflets.
- morwongs — Plural form of morwong.
- mow down — to cut down (grass, grain, etc.) with a scythe or a machine.
- mowburnt — (of hay, straw, etc) damaged by overheating in a mow
- nanowatt — a unit of power equal to one billionth of a watt
- nanowire — A nanoscale rod made of semiconducting material, used in miniature transistors and some laser applications.
- narrowed — Simple past tense and past participle of narrow.
- narrower — of little breadth or width; not broad or wide; not as wide as usual or expected: a narrow path.
- narrowly — of little breadth or width; not broad or wide; not as wide as usual or expected: a narrow path.
- neckdown — An angled narrowing of the roadway and widening of the pavement, used as a traffic calming measure.
- networks — Plural form of network.
- new hope — a town in SE Minnesota, near Minneapolis.